GamerGate (because censorship is dumb)

[Juan]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:30:03 -0700
Stephen Williams <sdw at lig.net> wrote:

> On 10/29/14, 11:02 AM, Hashem Nasarat wrote:
> >
> > On 10/29/2014 12:24 PM, RKN the_PORTABLE wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Let me sum up gg in a way that I expect cpunks to understand (but
> >> then again, I expected cpunks to have more brain and do better
> >> research rather than just go white knighting):
> >> "Anti-prism people are not pro privacy. They are pro terrorism and
> >> paeodofilia! Snowden is just a racist! He could not cope with
> >> changing times and the fact that new president is black so he sold
> >> out his country and ran away to homophobic and racist RUSSIA!"
> > This analogy is not very useful as USA is also homophobic and
> > racist.
> 
> Not really the same at all.  Russia's government is still actively
> oppressing people in these ways while the US is:
> 
> A) Far less homophobic and racist than it used to be. 

	LMAO! 

	self-parody never ends.





 In some areas,
> hardly at all. B) Has gone from the government homophobia hunting
> people to fire from government jobs in the 1950's to complete
> legality and usually legal protection now. C) The Millennials as a
> group are not homophobic or racist to any measurable degree.
> Remaining pockets are becoming more isolated and their youth are
> changing too, as far as anyone can tell.
> 
> The whole culture is rapidly changing in many ways.  Music, Internet,
> Hollywood, legal cases, politicians (because many have been voted
> out), etc. have all been changing people's opinions.  The rate of
> evolution, or at least the rate of maturation of active cycles has
> been apparently increasing each year.
> 
> Pervasive cell phone video, major cases of corruption and
> overstepping bounds and tragedy have caused major pull back of
> longstanding troublesome trends.
> 
> This is how all of this ties into cypherpunks:  Observing how
> opinions, public sentiment, then enforcement, regulations, and market
> options evolve in each of these cycles should be instructive when
> trying to induce important change.  How can you position things to
> improve better outcomes when inflection points happen?
> 
> sdw
>